Tag Archives: Mike Ussery

Fred Rotondaro

Vice President Joe Biden talks the language of a lot of Americans, and regular contributor Fred Rotondaro says President Obama would do well to make the vice president the point man for picking some fights with Republicans.http://www.americanprogress.org/

Michael Ussery

It isn’t possible to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says our Republican foreign policy expert Mike Ussery. But that still doesn’t make Russia our Number One enemy, he says.

Andrew Harmon

Bill Press chats with the White House correspondent for the “Advocate” about the president standing up for gay marriage.

Author and Democratic activist Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is concerned about the injection of religious belief into political campaigns. After Rick Santorum said her uncle John F. Kennedy’s call for separation of church and state made him want to throw up, she says Santorum was being childish and unworthy of a presidential candidate.

Bill Press chats with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on labor’s endorsement of President Obama, Republican attempts to suppress the vote and the need for bipartisan support for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure.

James K. Galbraith

Regular guest James K. Galbraith shares his thoughts on the debt super committee. As they begin their search for areas of the budget to cut, Galbraith says they need to steer clear of entitlement programs.\

Michael Ussery

Mike Ussery, former ambassador to Morocco and veteran of seven political campaigns, discusses the 2012 Republican presidential field. He gives us a Republican perspective on which candidates Democrats should be taking seriously.

Jared Bernstein

An interview by Bill Press with Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, who says it’s too soon for the government to “get out of the way” when it comes to the economy.

Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the "powers that be on behalf of the powers that ought to be."

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 90 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.

As political columnist Molly Ivins said, "If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child — mad as hell, with a sense of humor."

To read his latest commentaries and subscribe to his monthly Hightower Lowdown, go to www.JimHightower.com.